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Minneapolis City Council Pledges to Dismantle Police Department

“We’re not abolishing help. We’re abolishing police. That’s very different...We have to do the work to imagine something different and to listen to what people in different neighborhoods and communities want.”

Minneapolis City Council Approves Restraining Order for Police

Terms of a temporary restraining order outlines changes that must be implemented by the Minneapolis Police Department

Statements from Black Visions & Reclaim the Block press conference

Community safety comes from within.

MPR News: Spotlight on Black Trauma and Policing

What comes after police disband? Part 2 in an ongoing series about transformative justice.

‘There is No Reforming MPD’

Local Black activists and artists discussed police abolition in a forum hosted by Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block. Part 1 in an ongoing series about transformative justice.

Looking for Racial Justice : a 1992 Twin Cities Perspective on Protests

Where are the leaders who can understand and honor the experiences and hopes of people in this society who are left out of the justice equation.

In the News: Transformation Version

The ugly, the bad, and the good news in our pandemic responses

Co-Creating the Community Economy

As publisher and editor of the Minnesota Women’s Press platform, I ask our readers: Help us find and share — in virtual forums, in our magazine pages — the stories about community-based economies, green cooperatives, and women-led innovations that are working to truly correct our inequities.

The Gender Lens on COVID-19

One of the stories we are following in this COVID-19 world is how women and children are finding safety in homes when sheltering in place includes domestic abuse.

35 years of Minnesota Women’s Press

Do you know how long ago Minnesota efforts to improve multicultural education began?

The Census as Community Care

Communities most likely to be undercounted are the communities that need these resources the most. An undercount will only exacerbate economic, racial, and gender disparities.

Fear of Immigrants: An Economic Strategy

based on a book by Erika Lee A large segment of the U.S.…